After 13 years in the Ankang (安康) system of psychiatric facilities operated by the Ministry of Public Security, Wang Wanxing was released last August and immediately exiled to Germany. This news came from Human Rights Watch on November 2. As the Human Rights Watch press release (well worth reading in its entirety) states, "Wang Wanxing is the first known released inmate of China's notorious Ankang system, out of an estimated 3,000 or more political detainees held in police-run psychiatric custody since the early 1980s, to have left China and be in a position to speak out about his experiences."